i n -B e tw ee n Selected works of Zhifeng LI 2018-2022
In Martin Heidegger's understanding, existence is not isolated but intertwined. People acknowlege their existence by interactions with their surroundings. Architecture is a role between human beings and the world. It acts as a medium affacting people's behavior, perception and experience, and organizing the order of its context. Architecture builds connections between different elements, and brings people to a place where they can communicate with the world.
CONTENT 01 STAY IN INUJIMA 4 - 13
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MILANO X
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AN OVERLAPPED LANDSCAPE
22 - 27
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COURTYARD IN THE APARTMENT
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DIALOGUE WITH SKY
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INTERNSHIP WORKS 40 - 41
STAY IN INUJIMA 6/2022 Team member: Linggu GAO, Ye ZHOU Location: Inujima, Japan Tutored by: Kazuyo Sejima, Lars Jonas Hugo Elding, Francesca Singer, Giulia Setti Grade: 30/30+
In 2010, the first Art Festival of Seto Inland Sea was held in Japan. One of its important role was to bring visitors to the islands of this area that was undergoing an declining process by means of developing art projects. Among these islands, Teshima and Naoshima are well known thanks to famous architects like Tadao Ando and Ryue Nishizawa. In the same year, Kazuyo Sejima started her art project in Inujima, which responded to the problem of aging and industrial decline by working with artists and architects. Location of Seto Inland Sea in Japan
Engawa in Japanese architecture
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This project is a Master-degree studio of Politecnico di Milano led by Kazuyo Sejima. Different from providing a 「beautiful」design to attract tourists, our proposal is to create a sustainable project for Inujima, responding to the landscape, life and history of the place. In our concept, building the relation between local and visitors is the key idea of architecture. Three sites are selected from the village to the natural environment, and we designed hotel for visitors and studio space for artists. Facilities and activities of the intervention are connecting to the existing system in the village. Visitors will therefore 「live」 in the island. Semi-open space that similar to ENGAWA, which is an raised wooden floor where people can stay in traditional Japanese architecture is created in our design. It represents a philosophy that stay connection with the place people are living, which is transcendent in Japanese culture.
EXISTING TOURIST SYSTEM OF SETO INLAND SEA
Art-project island Ship route Port Accomodation Museum Restaurant Recommended time for stay
Currently, ship is the main transportation of Seto Inland Sea, from which we know Inujima is not well connected to the whole system. Besides, Inujima also lacks in tourism equipment compared to other islands. According to this, we defined our project as hostel and studio, which provides place for visitors and artists to stay.
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PROPOSAL
Intervention Hostel Reception Accomodation Kitchen
Art Exhibition Studio
Public using Rest area Reading room Mediation room Restaurant/ Bar Medical help
Existing facilities Shrine Exhibition Toilet Kitchen Rest area Port Beach Relation between 3 sites Relation with existing facilities Tourist network Local network
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Site A Original walls of the existing building was replaced by engawa, which allows communications between visitors and villagers
Site B The new building is designed as an exhibition house. Its scale remains the same as the existing buildings. The building adopts a curve roof where people can stay and have a better view towards the eastern landscape
Site C Volumns are connected by corners to enlarge the views of the rooms. Engawa here is a place where people enjoy the surrounding natural landscape.
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SITE A
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SITE C
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MILANO X 10/2020 Team member: Linggu GAO, Shangtong HUANG, Wujingting ZENG Location: Milan, Italy Tutored by: Fabiano Lemesde Oliveira, Stefano Di Vita Grade: 30/30+ Individual modification in 2023
Urbanized area
Historical district
Railway system
Green system
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This project is a redesign of Milano Rogoredo, a railway station locates in south-east Milan. Urban systems of the city were analysed in various scales. In metropolitan scale, the site is at the fringe area of the city, where city texture becomes fragmented, and density becomes low. The railway system connects the area with the other parts of the city as well as cities surrounding Milan. And as for the green system, the site is between the edges of the green belt of the city. The issues in this area almost come from the conflicts between different urban systems in the fringe area, which results in ciaos and unorderd urban space. In order to solve this problem and arouse the potential of this area, we proposed a new city center for south-east Milan, which will build an order for the fregmented urban space. Two axis are created as new order: The urban axis will bridge the gap brought by the railway, and the green axis will connect the green system. Public space system is created along the urban axis. Urban space and building roofs are used as green area to create living conditions for birds, incests and pollination. These two axises will create guidelines for the subsequent development of this area, and will build the order of the urban space. The center of the two axis is a plaza planted with trees. With high density and mix-use usings surround, this central plazza creates a place for leisue and communication, and will become a new symbol and identity for south-east Milan.
URBAN SYSTEM
Weak connection to city center
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Fregmented urban space
Boundary
Main road
Residence
Work
Incontinuous green area
Public space
Green area
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STRATEGY
Building a center
Connecting to streets
Forming urban space
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100m
Residence
Hotel
Restaurant
Office
Museum
Commercial
Office/ Residence
Platform Level
Lounge Level
Ground Level
Underground Level
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LINEAR PARK Two residential buildings are designed in this block, bringing density and public space to the district. A veranda forms a linear urban space leading to the central plaza and railway station.
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CENTRAL PLAZA The central plaza is surrounded by office and residential buildings, which allows people of different purposes to stay in the plaza. Shops, bar and restaurants are on the plaza level, integrated by the porch that defines the central space.
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ENTRANCE PLAZA The other side of the railway has a higher density of office buildings. Open space is created for this district to enhance its connection to the railway staion and the central plaza.
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LAWNS This block is between the railway and the main road. A gallery and office building are designed to redefine the boundary, forming an open space for lawns with a commercial building.
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AN OVERLAPPED LANDSCAPE 6/2021 Team member: Duanduan Ding, Jing MIAO, Mengya WU Location: Pontinia, Italy Tutored by: Korolija Aleksa, Pallini Cristina, Racic Vitomir Grade: 29/30+ The Appian Way is one of the earliest and strategically most important Roman roads of the ancient republic. It connected Rome to Brindisi, in southeast Italy. This project is an architecture studio design based on the existing building, which was an Anti-malarial office located in the Northeast side of Pontinia, at one of the crosses of the Appian Way.
Location analysis
The site brings a muti-layer perception in the orthognal system of the landscape: the Appian Way itself as the primary order, the farmland, and the road system. The hight of the new volumes are limited to ensure the view along the Appian Way, and a proportion analysis was done as a principal of the design to keep people's perception in line with the landscape. Our design mainly consists of three parts: the existing building as architecture studio and apartment, and a new volume as a gallery. The order of the design comes from the definition of the cross of Appian Way, and is fit into the orthognal system of the site.
Canal System
Road System
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Extraction
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Hidden Ratio
Portrait Control Line
Landscape Control Line
Alianment with Site
Degree of Integration
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5 1. Office 2. Living room 3. Tea house 4. Private garden 0
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GROUND FLOOR PLAN
5. Gallery 6. Public garden
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SECTION A-A
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COURTYARD IN THE APARTMENT 4/2021 Indivisual work Location: Shantou, China The housing system of China started its marketization since the Open and Reform in 1978, and became the mainstay industry of the country within a short period. The design of commodity housing has formed a paradigm that has tight relation with housing codes, capital flows and market. It is based on the International Style, providing fuctionalist space for users but has no responce to traditional life experience and culture. This kind of housing allows rapid and mass duplication. It provides more than 14 million units of apartment each year, which means that people in China will live in this type of housing for a long period. Location of the apartment and the surrounding buildings
Traditional life in courtyard
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Under this context, this project aims to find a paradigm of living space design from traditional Chinese housing, trying to find a connection between modern space and traditional life. Three hierachies of space are defined according to Chinese garden: Courtyard acts as the role for gethering and daily activities; House is the room surrounding the courtyard, it includes private and semi-private space, and functional space like kitchen; Garden is the rest of the space between House and the apartment boundary, which is the medium between the intervention and the original space of the apartment. The project studies the types of boundaries in Chinese garden to define the relations between three hierachies, and finally allows people to dialogue with different elements. The concrete texture of the building is remained as its original status to enhance the spacial perception of Garden, maintaining the relation between people and the ontology of the apartment.
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CHINESE GARDEN
1-a The Surging Waves Pavillion 2-b Fishing Master's Garden
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3-c The Lingering Garden 4-d Master of Nets Garden 5-e Keyuan Garden 6-f The Garden of Cultivation
Courtyard Garden House
Spacial abstraction of Chinese garden
Boundary type in Chinese garden
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DESIGN OF ROOMS
Original space
House
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Garden
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Leisure/ Work
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Bedroom
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Bedroom
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Kitchen/ Bar
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Leisure/ Work
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Daily housework
E D A A C
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Boundary types
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DIALOGUE WITH SKY 6/2018 Indivisual work Location: Shantou, China Tutored by: Shaoyi LIU, Zhongqi LI Grade: 95/100
Lao Zi follow
Man
Zhuang Zi
Martin Heidegger
Man
Man Building
Earth follow
United
Universe
Earth
Universe
Dwelling
Divinity
Sky
Relationship between Man and the sky in differnet philosophy
Hip Roof
Saddle Roof
Double Hip Roof
Double Saddle Roof
The Figure Ground of Roof-Sky
Pyramid Roof
Conical Roof
Since ancient times, Chinese people have emphasized the connection with their environment and surrounding materials, and through this to understand their existence. In philosophy, China is also different from the west, which is keen to discuss the essence and rational type of things. For instance, the imitation of the specific form of landscape in the garden, the figuration of stupa in the Buddhist architecture, and Chinese Calligraphy, all proves that China is more inclined to understand the world through the phenomenon. However, industrial construction has begun to separate people and objects since entering the modern time, and people have gradually lost contact with the material world they live in. Cartesian geometry began to replace the complex architectural form and shaped what modern city looks like. It seems that people can no longer find their connection with the heaven and the earth via architecture, and the architecture itself also lost its original poetry and degenerated into an abstract geometry. This design aims to find out the prototype of the relationship between the Chinese collective memory and the heaven and the earth, through which to arouse people's awareness of their existence. Roof types of traditional architecture are studied to understand their relations with human perception. They act as the medium between people and the natural background, connecting people to their living place.
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Visual experience
Body experience
Prototype
Deformation A
Meridian Gate
Hall of Supreme Harmony
Hall of Central Harmony
Hall of Preserving Harmony
Elegant Moon Gate
Hall of Imperial Zenith
FORMS THAT DIALOGUE WITH THE SKY The relationship between the perception of roofs and sky in the Forbidden City is introduced in the project. Forms are generated from the abstraction of this relation, which enhances people's perception of their existence.
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Wooden Beams
Prestressed Steels Prestressed Steels
13-F Plan
Wooden Beams
Low-E Glass
Insulation
Curtain Suspended Ceiling
Aluminum Mullion
Aluminum Transom
Steel Beam
Topping Slab
Concrete on Metal Deck
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19-F Plan
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INTERNSHIP WORKS MOZHAO ARCHITECTS The founder of MOZHAO ARCHITECTS, Guansheng ZENG, was graduated from Harvard GSD and after years' experience in CCDI Shenzhen and URBANURS, he started his own office.
[Renovation of Z House / Concept Design & Model / 2019]
Presenting model of the client's house. We spend time to reorganize the inner space of the original building to build connection between different rooms.
[Renovation of Apartment/ MOZHAO ARCHITECTS/ Concept Design & Model / 2019]
The client want to turn the original hospital into an apartment. These models show our strategies to create a vertical connection.
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ZHUTAO STUDIO Tao ZHU is the professor of Hongkong University. He followed Kenneth Frampton when he studied in Columbia University.
[House N95 / Model & Build / 2020]
ZHUTAO Studio proposed a concept of House N95 in an exhibition after the first pandemic peak in China. It was a half of a geodesic dome that represents the Covid virus. The office invited artists to show their art works based on the Covid topics in the structure, raising people's disscussion on their lockdown life.
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